Hands On: Need for More Oceanographers, The
Oceanography's rapid growth requires that sizable numbers of eager young scientists join the ranks of established veterans.
Life Goes On: Fishes: Defense Mechanisms
Defense mechanisms among fishes are highly diverse. They range from visual defenses, like camouflage and schooling, to being large and predatory.
Life Goes On: Fishes: Sensory Mechanisms
Fishes survive in the ocean in part due to their sensory mechanisms. They utilize both sight and smell in this regard, as well as what's called a lateral line system. This is a series of pores and canals along the body and sometimes on the head that...
Survivors: Survival in the Intertidal Zone
Perhaps nowhere on Earth is the ability to survive better demonstrated than that part of the shore alternately exposed and submerged by tides-a region known as the intertidal zone. Remarkably, marine organisms there have evolved a multitude of ways ...